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RIP Luc Hoebeke, 27 December 1941 – 26 September 2026
sad news via Vanilla Beer on Facebook, who shared the below.
Luc was genuinely brilliant. His Making Work Systems Better (1994) was one of the earlier things that helped a lot to click into place for me, and set something of a template for what I aspire to offer: it was deep, accessible, practical, and cross-methodology (I don not claim to have met that standard myself).
great overview and review of it here by Philippe V
https://philippevandenbroeck.medium.com/luc-hoebeke-making-work-systems-better-1994-a201fb476aa
Here my transposition of the original link from model.report, with a new google drive link to the pdf
and another lovely piece by him
AGLX | OODA Loop Cybernetics: John Boyd’s Cybernetic Engine
Rationality and Reason Today
Hundred Years of Stafford Beer (Documentary) – Metaphorum and Boyan Angelov
100 Years of Stafford Beer: Organisational Cybernetics – a legacy whose time has come – Eds Espinosa, Schwaninger, Perez-Rios (2026)
A collection of essays, reflections, and tributes from scholars, practitioners, and friends who gathered to celebrate the centenary of Stafford Beer — pioneer of management cybernetics, architect of the Viable System Model, and originator of Team Syntegrity. Free to read, free to share.
Edited by Angela Espinosa · Markus Schwaninger · José Pérez-Ríos
Peter Block: relationships, resistance and the relevance of ‘Flawless Consulting’
Celebrating 100 Years of Stafford Beer: playing the POSIWID cards
The Second Law of Technodynamics – Velitchkov (2026)
#SysPrac26 – Day 1 – Doug Belshaw
https://substrate.dougbelshaw.com/sysprac26-day-1
Lots of coverage of #SysPrac26, which sadly I missed – it sounds brilliant!
See
(I’m offering two online workshops free instead
https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/09/21/my-apologies-for-sysprac26-and-two-online-workshops/ )
Machines of Loving Grace
Objects, Models, Theories • 4
Re: Objects, Models, Theories • (1) • (2) • (3)
What are objects, models, theories, and how do they relate to one another?
Recurring questions about the relationship between objects, models, and theories take on a different aspect when viewed from the perspective of Peirce’s pragmatic semiotic, in other words, when cast within a framework of triadic sign relations.
In contemplating the array of questions which come to mind I always find it helpful to ruminate on the diagram shown below — I might even call it a mandala for its wealth of symbolic features and its aid in organizing the pro‑&‑con‑fusion of mental impressions.
Aristotle’s “Paradigm”
Here is the corresponding text from Aristotle and the context that leads on to Peirce’s viewpoint.
Resources
cc: Academia.edu • Cybernetics • Laws of Form • Mathstodon
cc: Research Gate • Structural Modeling • Systems Science • Syscoi
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